Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1931, Page 39

Spbrts News PITCHERS PRIMED FOR LAST EFFORT Walt Confident of Runner-up Spot—Thinks Recruits Will Help in ’32. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. EW YORK, September 25.— Walter Johnson was in an expansive mood yesterday. Leading the Yankees for second place by one and a half games in what has turned out to be the real race in the American League, your ball club’'s manager thought the situation looked “pretty good.” Of course, Joe McCarthy, pilot of the by now slightly bewildered Yankees, expressed the opinion the New Yorken‘ were not licked yet, “and we won't be licked until they count us out,” added Babe Ruth. Which, according to Speed-ballist Johnson, was fine spirit, but a tough job. “We only have to win one more game | in our series with New York,” drawled | Johnson, “Of course, we'll have to win Sunday’s game with the Boston Red Sox, but I believe that we can do that. ‘The boys showed plenty of fight and hustle in Wednesday’s first game and with spirit like that they're liable to t anybody. Our ufl&llu:hm are all in fine shape,” ued, “and I don’t see any reason why the same fight and hustling that marked the first game should be absent today and tomorrow. As I said before, the spirit the boys showed | Wednesday can beat any team, and I| have no doubt that we're golng to ceme | out of this series successfully. All we have to do is break even, you know.” OHNSON declared that he was going to start Gen. Alvin Crowder in the box today, and it is probable that he will be opposed by Herb Pennock. ‘Th: General has been a consistent annoyer of the Yankees all season, and from his present form, according to Johnson, he’s not going to let up at this stage of the game. In the first game of Saturday's double-header Johnson will start Irving Hadley, and in the second game Fred Marberry—that is, if he isn’t used to- And since it was evident that the Nationals were almost in, in their bat- tle for second place, the talk turned to other things. Johnson spoke of the present and the The Nationals’ big pi and on€ which will have d least. 11y, in 1932—was the lack of suitable reserves in the outfield and at third base. “Rice is getting along in years,” he said, “but don't misunderstand me,” he interjected. “Rice is still a swell b3il player, but we didn’t have any one available when he wanted to take a rest. He played great ball all year, and tear to Jooks like a good hitter. He may be able to step in at third or in the out- field. There’s also Gill, from Baltimore, one of the outstanding players in the International this year. He may prove to be the solution of our out- fleld problem. We also have several good pitching M__u‘ AXKEN all in all,” Walter continued, “I think we had a very well palanced club this year. There Crowd e Gieneral ler, at the finish. eral :"u in there all the time and pitched great ball toward the close of the sea- son. He's won his last nine games and has taken 18 in all. But for a poor start, Crowder, I :elleve, would have e a great record. mflgvm,‘:l.w‘ if he gets that arm fixed, | 1s going to be an outstanding ball play- er, even & great one. ] ‘ “Of course, next year, like this one, Philadelphia will be the club to beat. None of us in the American League have hitters like Simmons, Foxx or Cochrane, or pitchers like Grove, Earn- | shaw of Walberg. Those fellows are | hard to beat. But I really believe that| we could have given them plenty of| trouble this year if the old problem | of wear'and tear hadn't set in.” Yesterday was a holiday for the en- tire Washington squad, but like the proverbial sailor, even on a day off| they went to see a ball game. ’rhey‘ attended the intra-city double-header at the Polo Grounds between the Yan- kees and the Rcbins and the Robins| and Giants, for th> benefit of the un-| employed. And what's more, they paid | to get in. Minor Leagues American Association. Columbus, 10-5; Louisville, 6-1 (sec- ond game, 8 innings, darkness). Minneapolis, 11-2; Milwaukee, 9-5. St. Paul, 3; Kansas City, 0. ‘Toledo, &; Indianapolis, 0. Pacific Coast League. Bacramento, 4; Portland, 2. Oakland, 8; Seattle, 6. San Francisco, 15; Hollywood, 7. Missions, 7; Los Angeles, 2. CHARITY GAMES. Brooklyn Robins.. 000 000 001—1 5 1 New York Giants. 010 000 20x—3 5 1 Batteries — Moore and Lombardi; ‘Walker and O'Farrell. New York Yankees 000 021 200—5 14 2 Brooklyn Robins.. 000 000 010—1 7 2 Batteries—Wells and Dickey; Hel- mach, Shaute, Day and Lopez. St. Louis Browns. 000 060 100—7 1 000—4 . Louls Cards... 400 000 "m — Coffman, Stewart Bengough; Grimes and Wilson. 4 8 6 2 By the Associated Press. Bob Grove, Athletics—Held Red Sox to five hits to hang up thirty-first vic- racked out | Jim Carnera Is Good As Mind Changer EW YORK, September 26.—The question before the fistic house at the moment is: Who primed Primo to refuse Tommy Loughran as an opponent at Ebbets PFleld on October 1? After the commission had granted Jack Sharkey a postponement Thursday for his fight with Carnera from October 1 to October 12, the Italian was r2ady to pick his weight in wildcats, which would be con- siderable wildcats no matter how you look at it. Promoter Jimmy Johnston was all agog over the prospect cf offering Loughran and Carnera on the first, with the winner to meet Sharkey on the twelfth. Jo: Smith, Loughran's manager, fell all over himself accepting the proposition and with Carnera crying for a match on the original dats so that he might not go stale, everything was serene. But early this morning with the lights on Broadway going into secju- sion for the daylight hours, Johnston learned that Carnera did not care to meet Loughran on the first, as he had stated so explicitly at the com- mission only a few hours. before. @he Foend WITH SUNDAY MORNING, EDITION ny Stat. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931 Johnson Is Pleased With Team’s Spirit : Grove’s Thirty-First Clinches Record G P. 0. NINE AIMS AT TWO STRAIGHT Winner Over Commerce, 5-1, Would Wind Up Week-Day Play-off Today. HOULD G. P. O. trim Commerce again this evening in the play- off series for the city week-day base ball leagues championship, the Typos will garner the laurels. The game was scheduled for the South El- lipre at 4:15 o'clock. Should a third contest be necessary it will be played on the same diamond at the same time ‘With Prank Corkins pitching three- hit ball the Typos yesterday ‘downed Commerce, 5 to 1, in the series opener. Leon Riley, losing hurler, fanned 10, - | but was reached for nine hits. * G. P. O, with Homan, B. Schneider and lllrdtng heading its attack, scored it | three runs in the first inning. Homan the first Typo batter to face Riley, hit a homer. D. C. Ut ' Association nine will meet the French Co. team, rated the District independent champion, tomor- tossers, Department. Stores League pen- nant TE, on Monument diamond TOMORROW. - d%{s:lll vs. Palisades, Phoenix Pield, 3 vy_Chase G: Wi s Chievy Chase Playeround, 30 A SUNDAY. Oiro's Vil e 3 s Sy llagers vs. Phoenix, Phoeniz Pleld, Chevy ' Gra; . Virgini 8oz, Bailer's Gross Boade Va3 elonk Democrats at Baiti- Takoma Tigers vs. ton _A. C. vs. Gnlf Refining Co., more Wi et ionic i dio” R Eeria Elkrid indio vs. e, Md. (double-header). . - GAMES WANTED. Bethesda A. C.. for_ Sunday. Rockville gepecially enallened. Bradiey 80 between ® Hiiriday A, C.. for Sunday. unlimited . C.. for Bunday. u op- ponent. Bradiey 23 after 6 p.m. BOOTERS OlIT SUNDAY Fashion Shop Candidates to Toil on Monument Grounds. All candidates, new and old, for the Fashion Shop Soccer Club are asked to report for practice Sunday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock on the Monument grounds. W. 8. Mann, telephone Columbia 9650, will give further information, be- tween 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. ALLAUDET'S foot ball squad includes these veterans: Capt. Battiste, West. Jacobson, Glad- hill, Rockwell, Foitz, Miller, Durian, Rolier and Moore. Classen, Martin and Kelly are among promising new- comers. Donald Ball is golf professional at Columbia Country Club. Among those mentioned in the golf news are Montgomery E. Dan- forth, A. S. Mattingly, Emmett Pol- lock, John B. Klemmann, John Porter, Lawrence D. Morgan, T. H. Anderson, T. W. Daniels, H. Martin, Ryan Devercaux, P. J. Fitz- simmons, J. M. Sterrett, Stanley Purman, Senator J. M. Thurston, R. B. Brown, W. H. Moses, F. B. Poe, O. P. Jackson, E. 8. Jackson, F. L. Huldekoper, H. E. Colton, C. R. Wilson, C. K. Rockwell, J. H. and W. H. Merriam, Rudolph Kauff- Stearns and W. M. th. Manager Jim McAleer likes Ray Morgan, Washington Tecruit third baseman. Tilden-Richards Officials Named INFREE JOHNSON, president of the Washington Tennis As- sociation, has named John Ladd, William O. Shreve, Joseph Rutley, Pat Deck, Capt. A. J. Gore, A. O. Whiteeanid Herb Shepard to act as officials in the professional tennis matches featuring Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards Sunday after- noon on the Wardman Park courts. Richards will arrive here today, and Tilden tomorrow night. Albert Burke, Bruce Barnes, Em- mett Pare and Bobby Sellers will be here with Tilden and Richards. Tickets for the matches are on sale at Spalding’s, the Tennis Shop and Wardman Park. PLAY FOR DIXIE HONORS HOUSTON, Tex., September 25 (#). —The Birmingham Barons and the Houston Buflaloes will meet under the lights here tonight in the deciding game of the 1931 Dixie base ball series. ‘The teams traveled back to Houston yesterday, tied at three games each as the result of a Birmingham come- back, which found its peak, apparently, when the Barons hammered four Buf- falo pitchers Wednesday for 23 hits and won, 14 to 10. Tonight's hurling duties were as- signed to Jerome “Dizzy” Dean, Hous- ton youngster, and Bob Hasty, Birming- ham veteran. Even Experts May Get HEY'RE off tomorrow. Splint and amica season Is here and from now on the col- * legiates will be trying to prove they are the answer to the Einstein theory, a cure for the depression and the logical successors to runt golf. From this point on the cash cus- tomer will gargling his world series literature festooned with end runs, garnished with a few lateral passes, topped with a forkful of line crashes. In just one more week, sweet sister, the boys in cuckooland will be charg- ing Al Simmons with an intercepted pass and. Tom Mills, out there at Georgetown, with a base on balls. A month from now there will be enough eye teeth garmered in the Na- | tion's stadia to pave all the bad spots | in the Lincoin Highway from Wash- | ington to Baltimore and emough limps to make us look like a country of | grasshoppers to visiting diplomats and | relatives from Solomons Island. | Everything will be foot ball. When big business and politics go' into a first-page lather over wage cuts and foreign debts the boys in moleskin will think they are talking about & new formation for the backfield. Carnegie Foundation will be squawk-, ing about over-emphasis and coaches will be balking about the refining in- fluence of the class room interfering with foot ball. When the grid mentorsstop steam- ing the alumni as- sociations will be arguing for shin guards for specta- | tors and the scalp- ers will ask for fair play. And the old grad | will speak his piece in the midst of war, demanding more 50-yard_lines in the game. When that baby starts to argue about _his team he will give the answers first. He will prove there is a conspiracy between Trenchmouth, Bumeroo and Pip Colleges to keep dear old Kicka- poo out of the alliance, Yessir, that baby will yodel enough to hold a newspaper A. P. franchise, morning and afternoon editions. American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Ehiladelphia. 9: Boston. 4. . 6 it. 4. g&-':r' e ot seheduled. Standings in Major Circuits FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931, National League YESTERDAY'S KESULTS. Philadelphia, 5: Pittsburgh. 1. Other chubs noi scheduleds 21z 2 esvuacag - 4] 8i131—1 9/11116/181 7617 T 461 6i13i—I12f 8112/ 6189 with five hits to win of season. ates | Wi nineteenth game GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. THE BIG CRASH IS is at Cincl. 8t. Louis at Cincl. . (R ON. Pigskin Crashes Horsehid Their Spheres Mixed. BY TOM DOERER. ‘When he snifts a beeker of hair oil his loyalty to old Bumeroo like his hair might if he put it where it belonged. When he argues for old Bumeroo it will take '-hel Bladensburg Fire Department to cool him off. is listeners will apoligize for having other views. “We have a halfback at eld Poke- moke,” he will articulate, “who has everything but a cure for the depres- sion and warts on his neck. “When that boy flips a pass he aims for the third button on an end’s vest. ‘When he signals for a kick from mid- field the referee ediately blews his whistle for a field goal. And when he grabs the ball the other side gees to the sidelines to watch the run.” But there are 10 others like that boy on old Poke. Yet the old grad will not Dbe able to explain how Sneezeville High larruped old Poke on the previous Bat- urday. Listen to that baby and you will think that Poke is composed of 11 of the worst lifers out of Atlanta Pen, with a reserve squad of the world champion piano movers. Lend him an ear and he will tell you that the team's quarterback is so tough he walks down the field smoking a cigar and signing indorsementy for cement. And the roughest bird on the enemy's line could not make Poke's debating outfit. 2 Beginning tomorrow the bi t gab in the lather emporiums will be foot ball. You can get 2 winner with every cleaved whisker. When your favorite beard snipper hones his ax he is not sure whether you want your mustache waxed or came to use the telephone. But he can tell you why Georgetown ought to larrup Lebanon Valley. He does not care, either. Any man can cut hair, but it takes a good barber to give you a winner of a foot ball game or a billy goat fight. Yessir, brother lookas, you get & ircut and a win- ner for the same price. 1t will be the barber’s contri- bution to science, unemployment situ- ation and a better understanding be- tween nations. In the mean- ‘while, the country’s grid inexperts will be picking them for you every Fri- day afternoon only to apologize each Sunday morn. It will be surprising how the alibi crop will keep up. But don't twick a beezer of scorn at thelbo!y;. Junh ‘gfi:‘ it ;ppuur‘: that old Hopscotcl ege is gO! to win from Herringbone School by more touchdowns than there are wets with hope, somebody has lapse of memory on that fleld and Her- wins by a bigger margin to call for. ‘That will upset the dope, the experts, and takes Herringbone off Hopscotch’s schedule next year, preventing it from get! 40 per cent of new ‘ylllnllll‘. But a lot of the experts will be getting cagey as the season pro- gresses and their standings suffer with anemia. They will pick a win- ner with reservations. Scme of those reservations, too, will be big enough to quarter all of the Indians in the world upon it. nominate Umpah School unkerin, the gate and same syllable, with accent on both yes and no. ‘When they pick a loser it is & typo- graphical error and it's the printers fault. When they call a winning shot they want a bust in the Hall of Fame, a letter of commendation from Hoover' and a rise in salary. But don't blame the inexperts too much. That game is being played from the bench these days, and a handicap- rf M“:a knows how a wn:h'b-“nlnd going to untangle. Those babies ar- range everythi in the but the floating ribs, '%M lhlun:: cracked ol And it 15 going to be that way, gentle- men, until the game is turned back to the players. Which is a long way off, because the college bookkeeper can prove that youthful enthusiasm might make this a better country in which to live, but you can build stadi and hif faculty salaries on what the coaches are doing. Anyhow, the 1931 fot ball season fs about to unfold, and if it is going to be any different than last year's, or zha‘&:r'l before, call me up some rainy rnoon and prove it. My only doubt is whether there will be enough shinplasters to g0 around this Fall. If there isn't let me warn that you will hear a lot -;f y-ihgtnl &gm the faculties aboul + ov A What they wil measy. peother, 5 that there is not enough money com- ing in to pay for a class team and improvements on the campus. And the de-em via the lopping .p“'m:‘ coach for one who will peanuts. Yet things may come . out ‘There has Skina'to. g aroutd in ter what is happening nieh-priced ":’D up. no m make them —By TOM DOERER SHARKEY ARNERA B0UTSTLL IN AR Loughran Ready to Step in if Jack Continues to Spurn New Date. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, September 25.—Primo Carnera may make that second New York appearance of his next month, but it appeared a bit improbable today that the big Italian’s opponent would be Jack Shar- key, the Boston sallor man, who still can talk & good fight. Promoter Jimmy Johnston has had Carnera and Sharkey booked for some time to clash in a 15-round bout at Ebbets Pield, Brooklyn, October 1, but yesterday the bout was shoved back to October 12 on Sharkey's plea that he had injured the little finger of his left hand and would not be able to go mu(h with the battle on the earlier The new date of October 12 was the New York State Athletic Commission’s idea and not Sharkey’s. Jack main- tained that he would not be in shape to fight Carnera that soon and when asked point blank whether he to through with the ren!!eod with a flat and decisive “no.” Loughran Wants Shot. So the whole matter was up in the air along with Johnston. Jimmy went scurrying around yesterday and discov- ered that Tommy Loughran, the clever Philadelphian, was perfectly ready and willing to meet Carnera. Loughran may get the shot either on October 1 or October 12 Carnera’s manager, Leon See, prot:sted vehemently against any postponement and said Carnera would be prepared to fight Loughran on the 1st and Sharkey on the 12th. Loughran would be outweighed 90 by Carnera, but the Philadel- phian is used to giving away weight. He conceded Vict Campolo 50 pounds and nearly knocked out the huge South American recently and has Max Baer, Ernie Schaaf and Tuffy Griffiths as well during the last months, CHAMPION WHIPPED IN NON-TITLE BOUT Graham Scores Over Battalino, Feather Ruler, in a Dull Ten-Rounder. By the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, September 25.— Bushy Graham of Utica, N. Y., pounded out a dull 10-rgund decision in a non- title bout her® last night with Bat Battalino, featherweight champion. Battalino forced the fighting most o the way and scored heavily in the in fighting. After seven rounds of clinch- ing and cautious sparring Graham cut loos: and outboxed the champion to win in the eighth and ninth rounds. The tenth went to Battalino, but gave him only four rounds to Graham'’s five. The first round was even. Battalino appeared puzzled by Gra- ham’s style and made little showing against it. WIRE IN TRAINING HERE Polishes for Ring Clash Monday ‘With Barry at Fort. Pnnkle“vxine. whfi. 1:;mhfmm }}:g.: , Washington eavywe! E:;g‘ in the main go at eight rounds tch | in the feature of the card at Fort Wash- ington Monday night, has arrived here to finish his preparation. Henry Irving, also of this city, is training with Billy Schwartz to get on edge for Jack Pollock, his opponent in the semi-final. Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH.—Johnny Datto, Cleve~ land, knocked out Jackie Wilson, Pitts- burgh (3); Eddie Collins, Erie, Pa. knocked out Eddie Kaufman, Cleve- CINCINNATI.—Bushy Graham, Utica, N. ¥., outpointed Bat Battalino, world featherweight champion (10), non-title. CHICAGO.—Ted Ross, Chicago, out- pointed Bill Baker, Chicago (10). JOHNSTOWN, Pa—Willle Davies, Charlerol, Pa., outpointed Ross Fields, Cleveland (10). MUNCIE, Ind—Don Fagg, Clinton, Towa, ou ted Moan Indiana) (10). Classified Ads MARK SET BY W00 IN 1912 1S DOOMED Mack Southpaw, Loaded With Laurels, Can Lose Again and Still Prevail. BY HUGH 8. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. OT content with leading the Philadelphia Athletics in their greatest pennant- winning season in the American League and becoming the first left-hand pitcher ever to win 30 major league games, Rob- ert Moses Grove evidently is out to set a record for the boys to shoot at for a good many years. Grove already has tied one American League record by winning 16 straight games earlier this season. and seems to have clinched a new major league pitching mark as he won his thirty- first game of the year yesterday. So far the southpaw king has Jost only 3 games against his 31 vicfbries, giving him an average of .912. The.record, which stands at least until this season ends, is the .872 average made by Smoky Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox, who won 34 games and lost 5 in 1912. It seems likely that Grove will not pitch again before the world series, but he can even hurl and lose one more and come out with a record of .886. EFTY has done a good many other things worthy of note this season. In winning yesterday's game from Boston by a 9-to-4 count Grove gave only five hits to gain a record for the season of allowing only 241 safeties in 286 innings, and by 1. four men he brought his strikeout total, which leads the league by a wide margin, up to 169. The Athletics as a team piled up seven of their runs from the third to the sixth innings to win their 106th victory of the season, two more than any previous team of Athletics ever has won in a season. A pitcher far less seasoned than Grove scored a triumph that probably was as important to him in yesterday's other American League game. Oral Hilde- PAGE D-—1 game on the National League schedule as he held the Pittsburgh Pirates to five hits to win his nineteenth victory of the season, 5 to 1. FLOCK of exhibition games for the benefit of the unemployed kept five other major league teams busy and netted something over $78,000 for the jobless of New York and St. Louis. The results were something of a tri- umph for the American League repre- sentatives. The St. Louis Browns wal- loped Burleigh Grimes, ace of the Cardinal staff, for six runs in the fifth Inning and downed the National League champions, 7 to 4. At New York the Yankees took the best claim to the city champlonship by downing the Breoklyn Robins, 5 to 1, in the second half of a charity dou- ble-header after the Giants had de- feated Brooklyn, 3 to 1. The Yanks beat the Giants in another charity game two weeks ago to take the first leg on the title, then came through with a flock of homers to win yester- day. Four-baggers by Lary, Dickey and Gehrig accounted for all but one Yan- kee run. The Giants also won on & | homer when Johnny Vergez hit for | the cireuit in the seventh inning of the opener to break up a mound duel bs- tween Bill Walker and Austin Moore. Major Leaders By the Assoctated Press. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Simmo Athletics, .389; Ruth, Yankees, .!?2‘: Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 159; Ruth, ‘Yankees, 144. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 178; Ruth, Yankees, 155, Hits—Averill, Indians, I P Giants, 346 ins. Terry, Giants, 130; Klein, Runs batted in—XKlein, Phillies, 121; Terry, Giants, 113, Hits—Terry, Giants, 212; L. Waner, Pirates, 211. Doubles—Adams, Cardinals, 45; Ber- ger, Braves, 44. ‘Triples—Terry, Giants, 20; Herman, brand, who came up to the Cleveland | Robins, 1 Indians from Indianapolis only a short time ago, bested the veteran Ear] ‘Whitehill of Detroit to win his.second major league victory, 6 to 4. brand allowed only eight hits. Big Jim Elliott of the enviable performance in the only — Phillies turned | lost 1| Giants, 29. Stolen bases—Prisch, Cardinals, 28; Martin, Cardinals, 17. Haines, Cardinals, won 11, , Cardinals, won 17, SPEED! on the sidelines of Fashiom! “Hahn Specials” Newer, snurler. leathers —speedier styles—great- er values than ever. 530 Pigskin Y - E286—Brown Pigskin, rich brown calf trim. Sev- eral different models. E218—You paid $18 for Cordovan during the War. Here it is back in style again at a third of the price! E216—Black or brown Scotch Grains! You never tire of them—and never wear ’em out! 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